On Thursday, the European Union’s antitrust chief fined facebook a whopping amount of 110 million Euros, or about $122 million, for circulating false explanations amid the organization’s $19 billion procurement of the popular messaging app WhatsApp in 2014. The fine — one of the biggest administrative punishments against Facebook — comes days after Dutch and French security guard dogs decided that the organization had broken strict information assurance rules.

The European Union’s antitrust boss, Margrethe Vestager, said that Facebook had told the European Commission, the official arm of the European Union, that the social networking site will not merge the organization’s information with that of WhatsApp, which has more than one billion users till date. However last August, Facebook declared that it would start imparting WhatsApp information to remaining part of the organization.

In its defense, Facebook said that it had acted in compliance with common decency in its agreement with Europe’s antitrust authorities, and that it would not request the monetary punishment. The general punishment added up to a slap on the wrist — it could not hope to compare with the many billions of dollars the organization gains in the web-based publicizing each year, and Europe’s antitrust authorities held back before voiding the arrangement totally. Yet, the fine indicates that European authorities are expanding their examination of Facebook similarly as it winds up noticeably one of the biggest innovation organizations on the planet.

In last two decades, Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft, among others, have moved toward becoming focuses of long antitrust examinations by the European experts. Facebook, specialists say, is just the most recent in a long line of Silicon Valley organizations to face European administrative outrage, however this time, the focus is going to be majorly on the amount of online information accumulated, including data that Facebook gathers on both its clients and nonusers through external sites.

On Tuesday, French authorities fined the facebook for €150,000 for neglecting to give the organization’s clients in that nation adequate control over how their information is gathered and utilized. Dutch controllers likewise decided that the organization had broken privacy rules, however so far they have not forced a fine. While Facebook, originated in the United States and has now spread to all over the globe, its activities in Europe — and the reaction to those demonstrations by nearby authorities — are probably going to have suggestions on its worldwide operations.